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Long COVID could cost between €58.54 billion ($68 billion) and €115.3 billion ($135 billion) annually across OECD countries, including 21 EU member states, in the next decade, according to recent findings. Beyond its profound effects on individual health and daily living, long COVID also weighs heavily on a country’s health system and national economy. Projections to 2035 show that, under optimistic assumptions, GDP losses may fall to negligible levels, whereas more realistic scenarios predict persistent annual losses of 0.1% and 0.2% of GDP. These latter figures are comparable to the entire annual health budget of the Netherlands or Spain. According…
Published on 13/04/2026 – 11:24 GMT+2•Updated 11:45 Poland and South Korea agreed on Monday to upgrade their bilateral relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership, with defence cooperation at the centre of the upgraded ties. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk held a summit with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung in Seoul, marking the first visit by a Polish prime minister to the country in 27 years. The two leaders discussed a range of issues, with the main focus on expanding defence industry cooperation under a $44.2 billion (€39.6 billion) framework agreement signed in July 2022. Lee said the partnership extended beyond…
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The pontiff added, “To put my message on the same plane as what the president is attempting to do here is not understanding what the message of the gospel is, and I’m sorry to hear that, but I will continue on what I believe is the mission of the church.” Trump blasted Leo on Monday, accusing him of being “WEAK on Crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy” in a Truth Social post that underscores a widening rift between the White House and the Vatican. In his remarks Monday, the pontiff dismissed Trump’s criticism and said, “I have no intention of having a…
Published on 13/04/2026 – 8:00 GMT+2 Europe changed the way it’s thinking about modern military technology after the war in Ukraine and in Iran. Today’s conflicts ask for affordable, AI-driven, mass-produced equipment rather than expensive, sophisticated tools. The Commission’s 2025 Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 makes unmanned aircraft systems, also called drones, the flagship of its defence ramp-up. The Commission’s 2026 Action Plan on Drone and Counter-Drone Security focuses on a new approach to drone production through industrial scaling and the rapid production of counter-drone technology. The aim is to create a competitive European drone market, strengthen the EU’s preparedness and…
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Published on 13/04/2026 – 12:03 GMT+2 Donald Trump continues his efforts to reshape Washington… After his controversial interior design changes, the renaming of the Kennedy Center and the White House’s East Wing ballroom project, Trump wants his very own arch in the nation’s capital. Indeed, the White House has unveiled plans for a giant “Triumphal Arch” – dubbed the “Arc de Trump”, as it bears an uncanny resemblance to France’s Arc de Triomphe. If approved, the 76m monument would be taller than both the US Capitol building and the Lincoln Memorial. It will be “the GREATEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL Triumphal…
Among the measures to ease the immediate pressure are a temporary reduction of the mineral oil tax by 17 cents per liter for two months, and the option for companies to pay their employees a tax-free “relief bonus” of up to €1,000. “The strain over the past few weeks has been unbearable for many people — unbearable for small and medium-sized businesses, but also for individual citizens,” said Markus Söder, the leader of the Bavarian conservatives. “Daily reminders that prices are going up, like at the gas pump [have caused] a sense of powerlessness, anger, and a real heavy burden…
Good morning from Brussels, which is awakening this morning to a new dawn in Hungarian politics as Viktor Orbán is ousted after 16 uninterrupted years in power. I’m Mared Gwyn. After a rancorous and bitter electoral campaign in which Hungary’s place in Europe and the world took centre stage, Péter Magyar — a former Orbán confidant who broke ranks with the Fidesz party to lead the conservative Tisza Party just two years ago — has won a supermajority of an estimated 138 of the 199 seats in parliament, and is now poised to become the Hungarian Prime Minister. It brings…
The US military said it would begin a blockade of all Iranian ports on Monday, after talks between the warring sides in Pakistan collapsed, with US President Donald Trump blaming the Islamic Republic’s refusal to abandon its nuclear ambitions. Trump had announced on social media he would blockade the strategic Strait of Hormuz trading route that he has been demanding Tehran fully reopen, after his Vice President JD Vance left negotiations with an Iranian delegation in Islamabad on Sunday. The stall in talks dashed global hopes of a deal to permanently end the war that has killed thousands and thrown…